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Dave Kotinsky/Getty ImagesImran Khan. When Snapchat parent company Snap Inc. begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, its sale will prove a windfall for a handful of executives who helped grow the company from a tiny startup to a $US24 billion juggernaut in five years. That includes one unlikely addition: chief strategy officer Imran Khan. Khan, only at Snap for about two years, has been granted $US145 million worth of shares, the company said in a filing on February 2. Those shares will likely be worth a lot more at the IPO price. And he was paid a $US5 million bonus last year. Not bad for a guy who, not long ago, was working for “some bucket research shop.” That’s how one Wall Streeter described Khan’s early career. (He did indeed work at a small company, called Fulcrum Global Partners, until about 2004; it shut its doors in 2006.) Khan, 39, joined Snap in early 2015, in part to help chart the company’s path to an initial public offering, … [Read more...]

Media captionIfthekar Jaman, who's in Syria, has been speaking to 'Newsnight' reporter Richard WatsonA British man in Syria has told the BBC why he is fighting for a group linked to al-Qaeda. Ifthekar Jaman, 23, from Southsea, Hampshire, told Newsnight the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) was engaged in a jihad to establish a state based on Islamic religious law. He said it was his "duty" because Muslims were "being slaughtered". Mr Jaman, whose family come from Bangladesh, is believed to have left the UK in spring of this year. His exact location inside Syria is unclear. Newsnight managed to speak to him via an internet video call, with the help of his brother in the UK. 'Good deed' "I am ISIS. This is the group I am with. We are trying to establish the law of God, the law of Allah," he said. "This is the duty on me... all these people are suffering. Muslims are being slaughtered." He was always trying to be as strict as he can, he wanted to be the best MuslimMustakim … [Read more...]

If Bangladesh were expected to just fold over and put India on course for a win inside four days, that memo clearly did not get to Mushfiqur Rahim's men, or if it did, it was quickly thrown away into the dustbin. Virat Kohli double century highlights On a wicket that is still quite good for batting, Bangladesh showed great mental resolve and fight to frustrate the India bowlers and push this Test match in Hyderabad, the first ever between these two sides on Indian shores, a step closer to a draw. After India piled on 687/6 before declaring, it looked a matter of when India would win rather than if, particularly after the home side also managed to pick up a Bangladesh wicket right on the end of day two. That looked all the more likely when Tamim Iqbal (24, 53b, 3x4) was needlessly run out in just the third over of day three, after a massive mix-up with Mominul Haque. With Mominul (12, 36b, 1x4) and Mahmudullah (28, 57b, 4x4) also falling without too much resistance and Umesh Yadav … [Read more...]

If anyone you can put your money on as an opening batsman, you no longer need to look further than Murali Vijay. The Indian opener was once again seen at his best when he struck his ninth Test hundred and first against Bangladesh in the one-off Test at Hyderabad. The Tamil Nadu batsman has said that he has curbed the tendency to nibble at deliveries outside off and is back to batting the way that fetched him runs in international cricket. Also Read: Murali Vijay Brings Bangladesh Down To Earth, Hits Fluent Hundred In Historic Test "See, I was playing at the balls that I should be leaving actually. I went back home and gave it a thought, came back to Bombay (England Test in Mumbai) and played in the way I would play rather than playing for the situation which was putting too much pressure on me. These are small things, I rectified in the Bombay Test," Vijay said at the post match conference. "As I am playing one format of the game at the moment, I have got a decent idea about it and … [Read more...]

Every coal plant in the European Union should be closed by 2030 and every single one in the world should shut by 2050 in order to meet commitments under the Paris Agreement on climate change, according to a new report. Researchers at Climate Analytics founds replacing coal with renewable energy was the cheapest way to achieve the targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But the scale of the task is daunting, as illustrated by an interactive map of Europe created by the CarbonBrief website. While some places like Scotland, where the last coal power station closed last year, and Ireland, which has just one, would be largely unaffected by this strategy, Germany and Poland, in particular, rely heavily on the fossil fuel. The report said: “A fast coal phase-out strategy in the European Union represents not only a necessity but also an opportunity when considering other policy goals beyond climate change. “There are numerous alternatives to coal and their development is … [Read more...]

Renewable energy made up nearly 90 per cent of all new electricity generation in the European Union last year, as wind energy overtook coal to become the second largest form of power capacity. A report by industry body WindEurope revealed that 21.1 gigawatts of renewables out of the total of 24.5GW had been installed in 2016. In 2007, wind provided the sixth largest amount of power capacity but overtook fuel oil during that year. It went past nuclear in 2013, hydro in 2015 and has now eclipsed coal. Wind made up 51 per cent of all new power capacity last year, followed by solar panels (27 per cent), natural gas (13 per cent) and biomass (4.3 per cent), the report said. Germany installed the most windfarms over the period with 5.4GW – a massive 44 per cent of the EU total of nearly 12.5GW – followed by France (1.6GW), the Netherlands (0.9GW) and the UK (0.7GW). However Giles Dickson, WindEurope’s chief executive, warned the sector was facing troubled times ahead. … [Read more...]

More than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims might have been killed in a Myanmar army crackdown, according to two senior United Nations officials dealing with refugees fleeing the violence, suggesting the death toll is far greater than previously reported. The officials, from two separate UN agencies working in Bangladesh, where nearly 70,000 Rohingya have fled in recent months, said they were concerned the outside world had not fully grasped the severity of the crisis unfolding in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. “The talk until now has been of hundreds of deaths. This is probably an underestimation – we could be looking at thousands,” said one of the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity. Both officials, in separate interviews, cited the weight of testimony gathered by their agencies from refugees over the past four months in concluding the death toll was likely to have exceeded 1,000. Myanmar’s presidential spokesman, Zaw Htay, said the latest reports from military … [Read more...]

About 69,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar's Rakhine State since the outbreak of violence on October 9, according to the United Nations.
Reports of killings, rapes and destruction of homes have poured out of the state but are unable to be confirmed due to entry restrictions imposed by the Myanmar government.
"They are good people, they are not Christians, they are peaceful people, they are our brothers and sisters and for years they have been suffering," Pope Francis said during his address.
"They are being tortured and killed." Francis called on those in attendance to join him in prayer for "our Rohingya brothers and sisters who are being chased from Myanmar and are fleeing from one place to another because no one wants them." Pope Francis kisses a child during a general audience at the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican on February 8. Child murder alleged in Rakhine State
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By Antoni Slodkowski COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh More than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims may have been killed in a Myanmar army crackdown, according to two senior United Nations officials dealing with refugees fleeing the violence, suggesting the death toll has been a far greater than previously reported.
The officials, from two separate UN agencies working in Bangladesh, where nearly 70,000 Rohingya have fled in recent months, said they were concerned the outside world had not fully grasped the severity of the crisis unfolding in Myanmar's Rakhine State. "The talk until now has been of hundreds of deaths. This is probably an underestimation - we could be looking at thousands," said one of the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity. Both officials, in separate interviews, cited the weight of testimony gathered by their agencies from refugees over the past four months for concluding the death toll likely exceeded 1,000. Myanmar's presidential spokesman, Zaw Htay, said the latest reports … [Read more...]

Media captionDonald Trump: "All over Europe it's happening. It's gotten to a point where [attacks are] not even being reported."US President Donald Trump has accused the media of under-reporting terror attacks, and produced a list to back up his claim. Is he right? While on a visit to US Central Command, a wing of the Department of Defense, he warned of the danger posed by the Islamic State group. "You have seen what happened in Paris and Nice. All over Europe it's happening," he said. "It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported. And in many cases the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it. "They have their reasons, and you understand that." Later in the day, the White House published a list of attacks "executed or inspired" by IS. Before the list was published, press secretary Sean Spicer said there were "several instances" of attacks that had not gained sufficient media coverage (without specifying which fell into that category). We have reproduced the … [Read more...]

Donald Trump has accused the Western media of not reporting on terror attacks in Europe. Speaking to a group of about 300 US troops in Florida, the President said: "All over Europe, it's happening. "It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported. "And, in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it. "They have their reasons, and you understand that." Trump did not give examples of the terror attacks he believes have not been reported, or any reason as to why they would be purposefully ignored.
US President Donald Trump accused the media of not reporting on terror attacks (Photo: AFP) But the White House later released a list of 78 terror attacks since 2014 which "did not receive adequate attention from Western media sources." The list includes the appalling attacks in Paris, Brussels and Tunisia which killed hundreds, including Brits, and received blanket news coverage worldwide. One of the incidents mentioned is the tragic killing of Brit … [Read more...]

England are searching for a new captain after Alastair Cook announced his decision to resign on Monday morning. The Essex batsman, 32, is stepping down after more than four years and 59 tests in the role. Joe Root, 26, is the strong favourite to replace Cook but there are a number of other candidates in the running. Here, our man Dean Wilson takes you through five players who could step into the hot seat. JOE ROOT The firm favourite for the job after being Alastair Cook's vice-captain for a couple of years. The best batsman in the side has got the full respect of all the players in the England setup and has been taking on more responsibility in and around the dressing room on non-match days, making sure players are ready to perform. Doesn't have huge captaincy experience, famously losing a record chase against Middlesex when he did the job for Yorkshire in a one off game. Is a crucial member of all three formats, but with Eoin Morgan in charge of the white-ball sides, it will just be … [Read more...]

When Alastair Cook started at Bedford School, his father bought him a copy of Mike Brearley’s book The Art of Captaincy. A decade later, Cook admitted that he’d never actually got round to reading it. In the autobiography Cook published when he was 24 – he was as precocious in this regard as every other – he explained that as a kid all he cared about was batting, “and I did not want anything getting in the way of it”. If some men are born to the captaincy, and others achieve it, Cook assumed it. It was a corollary of his batting. In the end he led England in 59 Tests, more than any other man in history, but he never seems to have seen captaincy as an art, more a duty. “It interests me,” he wrote, “but it doesn’t drive me.” Alastair Cook in numbers The ECB eventually arranged for Cook to meet Brearley in 2007. They chatted for three hours, and when they were done Cook decided: “You can take as much advice as … [Read more...]

NEW DELHI (AP) — It's no surprise that satirical portraits of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un are the centerpiece of the India Art Fair, the annual feast of visual arts where politics took center stage this year, including groundbreaking projects on migration and rapidly changing urban landscapes in South Asia. Titled "Peace Owners," the work of Nepali artist Sunil Sigdel uses Buddhist motifs on the faces of the three global leaders. "Artists are responding to the global political climate," said Dina Bangdel, curator of Nepal Art Council in New Delhi. "We are also looking at agriculture and perhaps the disintegration of the rural community with urbanization. Artists are speaking in a Nepali voice but in the broader context of South Asia." Art by Sunil Sigdel is displayed as spectators photograph during India Art Fair in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. The four day art fair brings together a number of modern and contemporary artists to present their … [Read more...]

IN the long war to free this country from our unelected, unwanted masters in Brussels, last week we saw the Normandy Landings. The point of no return. The turn in the tide of history. The moment when the end — still so far away — seemed like a reality at last. MPs voted by an overwhelming majority to start the process of leaving the European Union. More than this, they voted — by 498 to 114 — to honour the democratic of the British people. Before the referendum, the Government spent millions telling us that our vote was final. Yet still there are embittered souls — so used to getting their way in their soft, pampered lives — that believe they can stand in the way of democracy. But now Prime Minister Theresa May has the authority to trigger our divorce from the corrupt, crumbling EU. Now we are on the far side of D-Day. May, to her eternal credit, has changed the narrative. All talk of “hard Brexit” and “soft Brexit” suddenly … [Read more...]

(CNN)Myanmar's security forces are waging a brutal campaign of murder, rape and torture in Rakhine State, a new UN report released on Friday has alleged. Eyewitness statements in the report detail "unprecedented" levels of violence, include burning people alive, raping girls as young as 11 and cutting children's throats. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said in a statement the report indicates "very likely commission of crimes against humanity." Aye Aye Soe, a spokeswoman for the Myanmar government, said the government has seen the report and is "very concerned about the allegations" "The Investigation Commission headed by the Vice President will look into it. If evidences of the violations are found we will definitely take action on them," she told CNN via email. Read More Soe said she would respond to CNN with more details at a later date. A United Nations team in Bangladesh interviewed about 220 Rohingya Muslims who had fled Rakhine State after the … [Read more...]

Inside the Rohingya Resistance: The rebels who provoked Myanmar's crackdown By Rebecca Wright and Ivan Watson, CNN Updated 0502 GMT (1302 HKT) February 3, 2017 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Hong Kong (CNN)Walking barefoot, armed with knives, sticks and a few stolen guns, dozens of young men march through the muddy fields of Myanmar's Rakhine State. "We will not rest, these are our fighters, come and join us," one says on the video uploaded to YouTube. Together, they represent the first armed insurgency to emerge from the Muslim minority Rohingya in decades. They call themselves Harakat al-Yaqeen, or "Faith Movement," and they have claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on Myanmar border posts in October, which killed nine police officers. Is genocide unfolding in Myanmar? Read More Fighting back In his first ever interview with the media, the group's leader, Atah Ullah, says they decided to fight back against … [Read more...]

The UN has accused security forces in Myanmar of committing serious human rights abuses, including gang-rape, savage beatings and child killing. It made the allegations in a damning report compiled after interviews with more than 200 Rohingya refugees who fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh. One mother recounted how her five-year-old daughter was murdered while trying to protect her from rape. She said a man "took out a long knife and killed her by slitting her throat". In another case, an eight-month-old baby was reportedly killed while five security officers gang-raped his mother. An estimated 65,000 members of the Muslim minority community have fled to Bangladesh since violence broke out in Myanmar - also known as Burma - last October.
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Nearly half of those interviewed by the UN said a family member had been killed. Of 101 women interviewed, 52 said they had been raped or … [Read more...]

Babies and children have been slaughtered with knives during a military campaign on Rohingya Muslims in Burma, according to a series of accounts in a disturbing UN report. An eight-month-old, a five-year-old and a six-year-old were all reportedly stabbed to death in their own homes during so-called “area clearance operations” by Burmese security services, which are reported to have killed hundreds of people since 9 October, in a Rohingya-dominated area in northwest Rakhine State. The chilling accounts, described by the UN as “revolting”, are outlined in a flash report from the United Nations Human Rights office. The report, which has been released early because of its alarming nature, is based on interviews with more than 200 Rohingya refugees who have recently entered Bangladesh after fleeing from violence they faced in Rakhine. One mother recounted in the report how her five-year-old daughter was trying to protect her from rape when a man “took out a … [Read more...]